RPGamer will be holding its first ever Battle System Battle Royale starting on Monday, April 21. Before it begins, we wanted to detail how things are going to work.

After gathering nominations from staff and readers, we have narrowed things down to a Top 32 list of our favorite RPG battle systems. For each match, two games will be pitted against each other with staff members talking up their favorite systems in the forum link below. At the same time, we will be running a poll on the front page of the site featuring the same two games, with the winner of the poll counting as a reader's vote. This way there will be five votes (four staff vote and one reader poll vote) for each pairing with the winner moving on to the next round.

Here is the Battle System Battle Royale bracket and the match schedule for Round One. We reserve the right to adjust the match schedule as needed.